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Bosse Broberg

Bosse Broberg (born September 6, 1937, Ludvika) is a Swedish jazz trumpeter and composer. Broberg learned to play accordion as a child and switched to trumpet at age 14. He studied music at the University of Uppsala and played in his own small ensemble there in a hard bop idiom. He worked for many years with Gugge Hedrenius starting in the early 1960s, and was with Arne Domnerus from 1964 to 1968; he also worked with Börje Fredriksson and Jan Johansson. He took leadership of Sveriges Radio's jazz programming in 1966, keeping the position to 1990; he founded the radiojazzgruppen in 1967 and composed and arranged for the orchestra. He played with Red Mitchell from 1971 to 1982 and with the Sandviken Big Band from 1975 to 1985. In the 1980s he worked with Christ… more »